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From: brett@tle.enet.dec.com (Bevin)
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Subject: Re: You get what you pay for (not true in software)
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In article <EMERY.91Jun20145620@Dr_No.mitre.org>, emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery) writes...
>Probably the greatest benefit from the ALS and AIE government-funded
>Ada compiler contracts is the large number of people who worked at
>SofTech and Intermetrics, and then went on to build a second
>(successful) Ada compiler (usually somewhere else).  This is a side of
>Ada technology transfer that has not been adequately recognized and
>acknowledged as part of an Ada success story.
> 
>				dave emery

I don't know about the other compiler vendors, but I suspect that the
major ones [DEC, Rational, Verdix, Alsys...] and many of the others [...]
had already completed their first Ada products by the time the large numbers
of people from SofTech and Intermetrics came looking for jobs.  I know that
was the case at DEC, and are fairly sure about the other three I named.

/Bevin